Sunday, 11 September 2016

Podecast 6 - The Wonderful Kererū

Apparently at some point in the last few months I have decided to just stop pronouncing the middle of a lot of words, presumably in order to save time.

(Also WTF is up with the scrappy recording of my voice? I recorded this on my laptop but Scrap is clearer?)

Click the Kererū to access the cast

The Wonderful Kererū appears only once in this Podecast but exemplifies the spirit of both participants, a fat, pompous, ridiculous animal snatching a whole twig from the tree of thought, eating a single flower and then throwing the rest away.

0.07 - VotE
2.38 - Weightlifters with no penises
3.37 - Do you want to talk about pre-history? (We do not do this.)
4.36 - I cut a huge amounts of blathering out here.
5.00 - Scraps game.
7.10 - Complexity and depth
9.30 - Scrap has a moment of clarity about the nature of Complexity
11.10 - Where it actually starts to get interesting.
11.50 - The capacity of a post-apocalyptic world to create its own context.
13.10 - A new place to put adventures.
13.45 - "What's his face? The guy who does Udan-Adan? We'll probably never know his real name."
14.15 - Our regular obligatory mention of Zak.
15.50 - Who did invent 'the dungeon as a living thing?
17.28 - A Ghost in my house.
18.30 - The 'blank slate' game world & identity.
20.43 - Eve as the first D&D player, Adam as a Storygamer.
22.28 - Rachel Pollack's 'Unquenchable Fire' I got the name wrong in the podcast.
24.26 - Our other regular segment on colonialism.
26.16 - Mention of Potatoes causes internet to drop out.
28.10 - It's 'Henry Moreton Stanely' and I may well be wrong about Cortez. Have fun with Wikipedia.
31.45 - "You're treating those children like subhumans."
33.41 - Scrap is confused by the moral exchange inherent to Government. Sarah Horrocks would probably agree.
38.15 - "If only one culture has reliable deep-water navigation, that culture is effectively playing D&D with the world."
39.45 - Cowboys on Mars.
41.53 - We expand our mentions of Zak to include his sister? Anyway, X-Men school-style Character Gen.
47.39 - Communicating on a Meta-Level. Maybe our players are friends.
49.15 - MY SPECIAL SETTING!!
51.00 - We cycle back to, or around, different contexts in which to place adventures..
52.00 - The ancient civilization of Dan.
55.09 - The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee.
56.55 - The Changeover by Margaret Mahy.
58.45 - Does the Conspiracy Theorist have a D&Dish world? No, not really.
60.01 - Pre-apocalyptic D&D
60.03 - Stealing & faking art throughout history.
60.05 - Dirtbag Greys. The Burke & Hare of space.
60.07 - Changes in scale. Insect wars.
60.08 - The Author was 'William Tenn' and the book is Of Men and Monsters.
70.45 - Giants would be very vulnerable, and likely peaceful.
72.55 - The wonderful Kererū or New Zeland Wood Pidgeon. (A bird that flies through the glass in your window is also playing D&D)
76.00 - "Birds would be good D&D characters."
81.00 - Evil Dolphins.

HOLY TITS CAN YOU BELIEVE (this is still going on, I'm literally dying here, I have to move to Birkenhead soon) I'M STILL PIMPING THIS STUFF I DON'T EVEN GET PAID WHEN HE SELLS ONE????

In-depth interviews with David McGrogan, David Fucking McGrogan he's a Doctor of (the philosophy of) Law you ding-dongs! (and a goddammn Tory, maybe the only one in the OSR, he's endangered!) creator of Yoon-Suin, Chris McDowall (did you even know he invented a whole bunch of wierd games before this one??(they are not bad, take a look at sooga games) I bet you didn't!!) creator of 'Into the Odd' the very game we were playing in this AP and Patrick Stuart, (I want that fucking ennie Zak, I want the whole (quietly crushed that we only won the silver when the book he wrote on his own won gold) fucking thing) winner of half a silver ennie for Maze of the Blue Medusa, all as one purchase. Not to mention art by Scrap Princess, Matthew Adams, Jonny Gray, Kathry Jenkins, Anxious P and Jeremy Duncan!!!!! I'm going to keep copy-pasting and adding to this bullshit (I'm still doing it!) till they are sold out motherfuckers!!!

Veins of the Earth Hardcopy

‘They've knocked it out of the park. Hit it for six. Got it in an arm bar in the first round. Pick your sport, pick your metaphor, doesn’t matter: the point is clear – so soon after _Fire on the Velvet Horizon_, Patrick Stuart and Scrap Princess prove once again that something as unlikely as an RPG supplement can be art, of the most impressive kind. An amazing work.’ - China Mieville

FIRE ON THE VELVET HORIZON

"Superpositioning with strange panache, Velvet Horizon is an (outstanding) indie role-playing-game supplement, and an (outstanding) example of experimental quasi-/meta-/sur-/kata-fiction. Also a work of art. Easily one of my standout books of 2015." - China Mieville" Maybe my favourite thing we've made. If you like Scraps work click the pic.